Usually means: Cunning, deceitful sophistry; Jesuit tactics.
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  1. jesuitry: Merriam-Webster
  2. Jesuitry: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Jesuitry: Vocabulary.com
  4. Jesuitry: Wordnik
  5. Jesuitry: Wiktionary
  6. Jesuitry, jesuitry: Dictionary.com
  7. Jesuitry: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. jesuitry: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Jesuitry: Rhymezone
  10. Jesuitry: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. jesuitry: FreeDictionary.org
  12. jesuitry: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. Jesuitry: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  Jesuitism; subtle argument.

Similar:
Jansenist, disputationism, Jamesian, curialism, neo-Thomism, Dominicanism, persuasion, jurisdictionalism, integralism, moderatism, more...

Opposite:
sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness

Adjectives:
gentle, german, honest, political, mere, theological, shameful, little, early, subtle, supreme

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Similar:
Jansenist, disputationism, Jamesian, curialism, neo-Thomism, Dominicanism, persuasion, jurisdictionalism, integralism, moderatism, more...

Opposite:
sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness

Adjectives:
gentle, german, honest, political, mere, theological, shameful, little, early, subtle, supreme



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